Reply #7: we don't grow new neurons

[qazplm]

admittedly the patterns set up change somewhat sure, but at the end of the day, the neurons don't, they just make new connections.

So your argument is that if we could simply replicate the "pattern" whatever that is, into a computer, that we'd still be we, and not a copy, but the real thing?

I'm not sure that's true and yet not sure it isn't true.